Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mao Ii, Lifeworld
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Find anything you need and get it instantly and anywhere . We live in a world continually trying to curve and contain our speech. Each of us are integrated and deeply complicit in a social order that involves the use of technology alongside a shared language. Ad campaigns expose members of silicon valley and related tropes as part of propaganda. Imagery of the up turned palm with a hovering orb represents the so called power we possess when implementing technologies. Shapes our fantasy of what we think is possible. All about power/control and having the means to produce what we want when we want it. Digital prophet at aol, director of media/marketing in europe division. Analyses trends & cultures and seeks ways to capitalize on those. Build content that fuels connections, engagements, and interactions. Multi-purpose features of devices is the future. Human experience missing from the digital connectivity. His notion of curation essentially = nihilism.